Discovery Channel Bio:
Without knowing, Kari Byron had been training her whole life to be a Mythbuster. By the age of 5 she was setting up experiments to test on her sister using dolls as crash test dummies. Luckily for her parents, they always caught her right before little sister took a ride down a laundry shoot or was the subject of 360 on a swing set attempt.
After graduating from San Francisco State and traveling the world, Kari began her career as an artist, working in sculpture and painting and holding successful exhibitions at some of San Francisco's leading galleries. Artist was only one of many hats she held searching for her place in the world. Her sculpting skills and love for odd jobs soon led her into the world of model-making and toy-prototyping: a job with Jamie Hyneman at M5 Industries. It was here that Kari got her first big break with the Mythbusters team. During the "vacuum toilet" segment of one of the first episodes (which examined whether a person could get suctioned into an airline toilet), Jamie needed a 3-D scan of a person's backside, and Kari had the right ... well, you know. Basically, she was in the right place at the right time. The rest is history (although we'd be remiss if we overlooked Kari's former job experience working as a secret martini shopper, rose delivery driver and posing as a store mannequin to foil shoplifters…just to name a few). Who knew that a degree in film and sculpture would actually be applicable to a real life career one day!
Today Kari works with the Mythbuster team, using science and yankee ingenuity to solve the mysteries of today’s most compelling urban legends.
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